Associate Director, Enterprise Software Engineering

Wolters Kluwer•New York City, NY

15h•Onsite

About The Position

As an Associate Director, Enterprise Software Engineering within Wolters Kluwer’s Enterprise Systems organization, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for mission-critical enterprise platforms, including ERP systems and custom-developed .NET, Java and other applications. This role is accountable for delivery excellence, financial stewardship, platform resilience, and long-term roadmap execution, operating within enterprise strategy and governance set at the Director and enterprise levels. You will manage portfolio budgets, oversee disaster recovery and audit readiness, and play a key role in deploying and supporting AI agents across enterprise systems. You will also contribute significantly to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) through technical due diligence and post-acquisition integration, ensuring acquired systems and capabilities align with Wolters Kluwer standards for security, compliance, and scalability.

Requirements

Proven experience leading multiple enterprise software engineering teams in a complex, global environment
Strong delivery record across ERP and custom-developed .NET and Java platforms
Experience managing portfolio budgets and delivering within financial constraints
Demonstrated success defining and executing multi-year technology roadmaps
Experience supporting M&A technology due diligence and integration
Knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity, and audit requirements in regulated environments
Experience deploying or supporting AI-driven solutions or agents in enterprise systems
Strong communication, stakeholder-influencing, and people-leadership skills

Responsibilities

Define, own, and execute 3-year software engineering roadmaps for assigned enterprise platforms, aligned with Wolters Kluwer enterprise strategy and architecture standards.
Translate business and functional priorities into executable technology initiatives across ERP and custom application platforms.
Identify and drive opportunities for modernization, platform simplification, and technical debt reduction.
Provide leadership and accountability for large-scale, multi-team enterprise software delivery, ensuring predictable outcomes across scope, schedule, quality, and cost.
Establish delivery governance, including dependency management, risk mitigation, issue escalation, and executive reporting.
Drive consistent engineering practices across teams, including CI/CD, quality engineering, reliability engineering, and secure-by-design development.
Own and manage portfolio-level budgets for enterprise software engineering initiatives, ensuring delivery within approved funding.
Partner with finance, product, and business stakeholders to support forecasting, investment planning, and cost optimization.
Ensure transparency into financial performance, risks, and trade-offs across the delivery portfolio.
Lead enterprise demand intake, prioritization, and sequencing for assigned platforms, balancing run, grow, and transform work.
Evaluate delivery feasibility and capacity constraints, recommending trade-offs to stakeholders.
Forecast staffing, skills, and sourcing needs to support roadmap execution.
Provide leadership across enterprise platforms, including: ERP systems (finance, procurement, HR, or adjacent domains), Custom-developed .NET and Java applications, Integration and middleware capabilities supporting enterprise workflows.
Ensure platforms meet standards for scalability, security, availability, and maintainability.
Lead the deployment and operational support of AI agents across enterprise systems to improve productivity, automation, and decision support.
Partner with architecture, security, data, and compliance teams to ensure AI solutions are safe, governed, and compliant.
Support integration of AI capabilities into existing ERP and custom application landscapes.
Serve as a senior engineering leader for technology due diligence activities, assessing applications, integrations, platforms, and engineering maturity.
Support post-acquisition integration execution, including platform interoperability, application rationalization, and modernization.
Identify risks and synergies related to acquired enterprise systems.
Ensure enterprise platforms meet defined disaster recovery and business continuity requirements, including recovery objectives and testing.
Partner with infrastructure and security teams to support disaster recovery planning, execution, and validation.
Maintain strong audit readiness, supporting internal and external audits through documented controls, evidence, and remediation actions.
Collaborate closely with enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, data, and compliance teams.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology stakeholders on delivery risks, options, and constraints.
Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior professionals, fostering accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Drive leadership readiness, succession planning, and engineering excellence across distributed teams.